reverend
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Adusah told police he left his wife in the middle of the night to meet a reverend in Ghana's capital Accra at 6am.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
A devil-horned tribute to Prodigy frontman Keith Flint was "respectful" despite its churchyard setting, a reverend said.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
"ICE has even been arresting airport workers while they are on the job," said one of those who protested, reverend Mariah Furness Tollgaard of Hamline Church United Methodist.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
“I don’t understand how as a pastor, he thinks that that’s acceptable,” Levy Armstrong, also an ordained reverend, said in a Washington Post interview Monday.
From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2026
The first tale I heard about him when I arrived at the Great Place was that the reverend had chased away a dangerous ghost with only a Bible and a lantern as weapons.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
No doctors, no lawyers, no journalists, no politicians, no reverends.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2022
They included two religious reverends, two senior penal system staff and two academics from the University of Sydney.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2022
I come from a family of reverends and pastors, and then here comes my little gay self.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
They can be reverends, rabbis, priests or pastors.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 12, 2018
It was on this trip that he had acquired most of his distaste for the reverends.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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